I find it amazing! With all the technology we have at our disposal, there is no such thing as artificial blood. Doctors can do amazing things: build artificial hearts, transplant organs, re-attach fingers and toes. But there is still no such thing as a human blood substitute. Donate today.
The most notable occurrence the past week was a total lunar eclipse.
Lawyers and so-called “experts” do the Tango
The good news is that there might not be a need to harvest “fetal stem cells” for scientific research.
A few weeks ago, the journal Science announced a major breakthrough in stem-cell research: A Harvard research team had found a way to create embryonic-type stem cells without the need to create and kill embryos, raising all those moral questions.
The bad news is just way too creepy. It’s almost fit for a new Halloween horror film.
The dirty little secret of the stem-cell debate, you see, is that stem cells derived from embryos at the blastocyst stage are useless because they tend to generate tumors. Researchers know this. However, recent studies with animals reveal that the problem of tumor formation does not exist in cells taken when embryos have had several weeks or months to develop. This means that the real therapeutic potential lies in the practice of fetal farming. It means that “stem cells, tissues, and organs harvested from humans at, say, 16 or 18 or 21 weeks’ gestation could be used in the treatment of diseases.” Mind you, we’re talking about fetuses almost old enough to live outside the womb. Ghastly!
Ghastly, indeed. This is where the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision has led us. To a point where scientists want to create “designer embryos” and then kill them to harvest body parts.
There are other more promising treatments
“Despite
the high profile that Nancy Reagan and others have given the idea of
using embryonic stem cells to treat Alzheimer’s disease,advances are likely to come faster from other approaches. “
This
article comes from a publication that doesn’t have any particular bias
on the abortion issue, one way or the others. Notice, they don’t hold
out much home for stem cell treatment of Alzheimer’s right now. I don’t
know why Nancy is using her husband’s death to advance a line of
research that’s not very promising.
